born: bird year
early childhood: collected skys
adolescence: collected sea-weeds
late adolescence:gave birth to a grapefruit
collected snails, clouds, garbage
cans, etc. Have graduated many
schools specializing in these
subjects

at present: traveling as a private lecturer of the
above subjects and others

recipient of Hal Kaplow Award

YOKO ONO - STATEMENT

People went on cutting the parts they do not like of
me finally there was only the stone remained of me
that was in me but they were still not satisfied and
wanted to know what it’s like in the stone.
y.o.

P.S. If the butterflies in your stomach die, send
yellow death announcements to your friends.

you are water
I’m water
we’re all water in different containers
that’s why it’s so easy to meet
someday we’ll evaporate together

but even after the water’s gone
we’ll probably point out to the containers
and say, “that’s me there, that one.”
we’re container minders

Yoko Ono, from Some Notes on the Lisson Gallery Show, London, 1967).

This cup was broken in Nankingon December 13th 1937.
And mended in 2015

Reincarnation

Mirror becomes a razor when it’s broken.
A stick becomes a flute when it’s loved.

Yoko Ono, from Seven Little Stories, spring 1952.

This cup was broken in Dresdenon February 13th 1945.
And mended in 2015

Take off
Your pants
Before
You fight.
Make this the rule.

Yoko Ono, from DO IT YOURSELF FLUXFEST PRESENTS YOKO ONO & DANCE CO., first published in 3
NEWSPAPER EVENTS FOR THE PRICE OF $1 (FLUXUS NEWSPAPER NO.7, February 1966).

This cup was broken in Hiroshimaon August 6th 1945.
And mended in 2015

BEAT PIECE

Listen to a heart beat.
1963 autumn

Yoko Ono, first published in Grapefruit (Tokyo: Wunternaum Press, 1964).

This cup was broken in My Laion March 16th 1968.
And mended in 2015

VOICE PIECE FOR SOPRANO

Scream.
1. against the wind
2. against the wall
3. against the sky
1961 autumn

Yoko Ono, first published in Grapefruit (Tokyo: Wunternaum Press, 1964).

This cup was broken in New York Cityon December 8th 1980.
And mended in 2015

When I was 5 years old, my mother always
told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what
I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t
understand the assignment, and I told them
they didn’t understand life.

John Lennon

Remains “When I was five years old…” by John Lennon

This cup will never be broken as it will be under your protection.

ONE

One is an immobile number. One is found in our bodies often as fixed
parts. We count ourselves as one but it might be better to count as
half a pair or a half when you think of the fact that our reproductive
organs can only function by meeting the other half.

One step is only half a move. Since we have two legs we have to take
two steps or jump in order to move from one position to the next.
One is before the cell splits in two. It is only mobile in the process of
becoming two. One as a force is a point – which does not extend like
a line. One constantly seeks for states of zero and two.